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October 21

songs in commercial ads

I remember the United States Postal Service using Fly Like an Eagle, Let the River Run, and Mail Myself to You in their ad campaigns. (Mail Myself to You is a song which was written by Woody Guthrie. But in one USPS commercial, the song was being performed by John McCutcheon.) I also remember FedEx using quite a few songs in one commercial about where the company flies to. What are the songs, and who sang them? Did UPS ever use songs in any of their ad campaigns? Anyone know?142.255.103.121 (talk) 06:19, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

How can we ever forget Dean Martin's contribution to the shipping world of ad's with "That's Logistics!", more on that here too. ^{Market St.⧏} _{⧐ Diamond Way} 08:33, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

UPS has used Such Great Heights by (ironically enough) The Postal Service. Adam Bishop (talk) 09:12, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps this FedEx commercial [1] might shed some light on the songs and who sang them.142.255.103.121 (talk) 22:32, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

H. G. Wells The Time Machine - Earth of 802,701 AD.

When watching both the original 1960 The Time Machine & the 2002 version back to back the other night, I was thinking about the Earth of 802,701 AD. Would there by much difference between the Earth of now (or the now/present for the films & novel) & the Earth of the Morlocks & Eloi Era ? Both natural differences like tectonic drift, day-night cycle, atmosphere, etc & man-made (in the first film they had a nuclear war & in the second film they destroyed the moon & fragments impacted the Earth) 194.74.238.6 (talk) 14:38, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

All anyone can do is speculate about that. The year 802,701 AD is 800,000 years from now, which is 400 times as long as the gap between the ancient Romans and us. So on the human front you could take the (very big but not completely overwhelming) difference between the ancient Romans and us, and multiply it by 400 to obtain a (huge) difference between us and that future era. However, I think that understates it, because we are technologically evolving not linearly, but exponentially; this implies that the difference 800,000 years from now will be inconceivably huge. Another way to think of it is to compare humans as they existed 800,000 years ago (extremely primitive) to humans now to get a feel for the difference 800,000 years can make.

Our Human evolution article says that modern man didn't speciate until 200,000 years ago. 800,000 years ago, Homo antecessor and Homo erectus would have been running around in Africa, but apparently nowhere else. Alansplodge (talk) 17:07, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

As for the natural differences, take a look at the geological history of Earth 800,000 years ago and compare it to now; that degree of difference may be indicative of the difference between now and 800,000 years hence. Duoduoduo (talk) 15:25, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Timeline of the far future has some ideas. Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:21, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Also, the Earth's magnetic field would be likely to invert over that time frame, several ice ages are likely to have happened, and the North Star would change several times. Changes in sea level are likely to cause dramatic differences in the coast lines, such as submerging most of Florida. StuRat (talk) 00:04, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

I can't wait for an actual entertainment question. I know some things about both films and the book....but I don't know a thing about 800,000 years into the future.--Mark Miller (talk) 00:22, 26 October 2013 (UTC)